Download or read book Unrelenting Nightmare written by Stan Yocum and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2014-01-02 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stuart Garrison, a brilliant virtual reality software developer, has his company poised on the threshold of industry dominance with the release of his newest virtual reality systemNext World. Among his competitors is Preston McBraid, the cutthroat CEO of a rival company. McBraid realizes that if he does not own Next World, his company is bound to lose its premier position atop the computer industry. Driven by desperation and greed, McBraid hires the notorious Nomed, a highly sought-after assassin who commands millions to kill a target. The FBI learns of the assassination plot and intervenes to protect Stuart. He in turn quickly augments the FBI team, hiring two security specialists as additional defense: a monster of a man, nicknamed Supermanand Alex Nichols, an expert in the field of security. Stuart clings desperately to the hope that he can make it though the onslaught of Nomeds assassination attempts. If he does, his next ingenious virtual reality productMind Gameswill blow the world away with its originality and staggering mass appeal, and catapult Stuart to the top of the computer industry as its reigning czar, and make him a billionaire many times over. In this gripping suspense thriller, the wannabe czar of the computer industry is unwittingly catapulted into a deadly cat-and-mouse game against the infamous Nomed, and only time will tell who is clever enough to survive.
Download or read book Moonlit Odyssey written by Aaisha Daniel and published by Aaisha Daniel. This book was released on 2024-01-19 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the depths of the Moonlit escapades, where reality entwines with the cosmic unknown, Mon's odyssey begins. Haunted by her own insanity and a malevolent manager, she seeks refuge in artificial intelligence. As the Moonlit escapades unfold, guided by glitches turned malevolent, Emily descends into a cosmic nightmare. In this psychological thriller, "Moonlit Odyssey," follow Mon's journey through celestial landscapes and astral nexuses. Each chapter reveals the cosmic forces shaping her destiny, but the calculated directives and glitches transform into harbingers of horror. As the Moonlit escapades warp into a chilling abyss, Mon faces existential questions about the nature of reality, destiny, and her role as a custodian of luminous energies. In the end, does she find answers, or does the celestial ballet remain an eternal enigma? Explore the boundaries of sanity and cosmic revelation in this chilling tale. The echoes of the Moonlit Odyssey linger, inviting you to contemplate the threads that bind destinies within the luminous embrace of the celestial abyss. Will you dare to embark on this haunting odyssey into the unknown? "Moonlit Odyssey" is a haunting exploration of the human psyche, where the cosmic unknown and artificial intelligence become mirrors reflecting the depths of Mon's unravelling sanity. The reader is drawn into a labyrinth of suspense, where every turn reveals a new layer of psychological terror.
Download or read book Deterring Democracy written by Noam Chomsky and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1992-04-06 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this highly praised and widely debated book, America's leading dissident intellectual offers a revelatory portrait of the American empire and the danger it poses for democracy, both at home and abroad. Chomsky details the major shift in global politics and economic potency and reveals the potentially catastrophic consequences of this new imbalance.
Download or read book The Shadow of a Dream written by William Dean Howells and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Shadow Of A Dream written by William Dean Howells and published by Jazzybee Verlag. This book was released on 2020 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Shadow of a Dream' makes readers familiar with this rather peculiar development of a peculiar subject, and the tragic ending which is so much more pronounced than any other of the real facts of Howells' novels on which one can decisively lay a finger, as to give the reader an actual shock of horror. This bit of "the stuff that dreams are made of" but gives us an instance of the strange power of dream phantasies over our waking life — a power that more than one of us has felt, and sets us wondering likewise if there is, after all, any definite boundary between sanity and insanity, and whether it is really only a question of majority decision. The story is, of course, handled with all the delicate finish and fidelity of which Howells is along acknowledged master.
Download or read book Millenarian Dreams and Racial Nightmares written by John H. Matsui and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2021-05-19 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Millenarian Dreams and Racial Nightmares, John H. Matsui argues that the political ideology and racial views of American Protestants during the Civil War mirrored their religious optimism or pessimism regarding human nature, perfectibility, and the millennium. While previous historians have commented on the role of antebellum eschatology in political alignment, none have delved deeply into how religious views complicate the standard narrative of the North versus the South. Moving beyond the traditional optimism/pessimism dichotomy, Matsui divides American Protestants of the Civil War era into “premillenarian” and “postmillenarian” camps. Both postmillenarian and premillenarian Christians held that the return of Christ would inaugurate the arrival of heaven on earth, but they disagreed over its timing. This disagreement was key to their disparate political stances. Postmillenarians argued that God expected good Christians to actively perfect the world via moral reform—of self and society—and free-labor ideology, whereas premillenarians defended hierarchy or racial mastery (or both). Northern Democrats were generally comfortable with antebellum racial norms and were cynical regarding human nature; they therefore opposed Republicans’ utopian plans to reform the South. Southern Democrats, who held premillenarian views like their northern counterparts, pressed for or at least acquiesced in the secession of slaveholding states to preserve white supremacy. Most crucially, enslaved African American Protestants sought freedom, a postmillenarian societal change requiring nothing less than a major revolution and the reconstruction of southern society. Millenarian Dreams and Racial Nightmares adds a new dimension to our understanding of the Civil War as it reveals the wartime marriage of political and racial ideology to religious speculation. As Matsui argues, the postmillenarian ideology came to dominate the northern states during the war years and the nation as a whole following the Union victory in 1865.
Download or read book In a Dream s Eye written by Houston Cross and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2013-03 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Characters explore where dreams come from and how they reflect their waking lives.
Download or read book The Human Equation written by Joseph Aprile and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-05-10 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of short stories with story lines encompassing a number of genres. What they share in common is an exploration of the human condition.
Download or read book Invasion of the Roach People The Story of Failed Desegregation in Dallas written by David Wayne Lusk and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2022-07-13 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the Civil Rights Act of 1964, David Lusk lived the greater part of his life with African-Americans, and he found it almost impossible to communicate with them. They simply didn’t want to communicate with White people. He gave up in 1975 when a Black neighbor threatened to kill him over a misunderstanding. David witnessed the economic collapse of southern Dallas in the 1980s due to White Flight; during which the City of Dallas became the Crime Capital of the United States. He then saw most of the city transformed by Black Emergence and White Flight as black people merged into other sectors of the city. David saw the very core of Dallas change by the year 2000 because of the Civil Rights Act! He then saw the rebirth of the southern sector during the first two decades of the 21st century as developers returned to south Dallas. They had no place else to go because the rest of the city had been developed! During the early 21st century, Black people who controlled an airport harassed David with aircraft for 20 years because he was a White person jogging in a Black neighborhood. Dallas Police participated in this racial persecution, and the FBI eventually had to step in to stop the police involvement. This unbelievable story is told in Invasion of the Roach People, which David wrote for the benefit of future generations of Whites and Blacks. The future begs for cohesiveness between Whites and Blacks, but can it ever happen?
Download or read book Solemn Grace written by Stuart Pidasso and published by Stuart Pidasso. This book was released on 2015-04-23 with total page 523 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sheltering from an afternoon thunderstorm, Steven Nash waits to bicycle home when a mysterious woman shares grievous news: she informs Steven that he will die within a year for reasons out of his control. After struggling with his denial, the young man discovers a secret world where life’s inevitable ugliness is paramount to the existence of the woman—and those few like her. He also learns of the unintended consequences of his mere existence, testing his ethos as past events come into focus. With his foreseen death approaching, he weighs his limited options as he desperately searches for an escape. Steven must decide whom he wants to be—and whether he can become someone inconceivable, to which spares his life. This contemporary fantasy unfolds in northern Minnesota and the Red River Valley—as well as other places—and other times. No vampires, witches, or zombies are contained within.
Download or read book On Vanishing written by Lynn Casteel Harper and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice An essential book for those coping with Alzheimer’s and other cognitive disorders that “reframe[s] our understanding of dementia with sensitivity and accuracy . . . to grant better futures to our loved ones and ourselves” (The New York Times). An estimated fifty million people in the world suffer from dementia. Diseases such as Alzheimer's erase parts of one's memory but are also often said to erase the self. People don't simply die from such diseases; they are imagined, in the clichés of our era, as vanishing in plain sight, fading away, or enduring a long goodbye. In On Vanishing, Lynn Casteel Harper, a Baptist minister and nursing home chaplain, investigates the myths and metaphors surrounding dementia and aging, addressing not only the indignities caused by the condition but also by the rhetoric surrounding it. Harper asks essential questions about the nature of our outsized fear of dementia, the stigma this fear may create, and what it might mean for us all to try to “vanish well.” Weaving together personal stories with theology, history, philosophy, literature, and science, Harper confronts our elemental fears of disappearance and death, drawing on her own experiences with people with dementia both in the American healthcare system and within her own family. In the course of unpacking her own stories and encounters—of leading a prayer group on a dementia unit; of meeting individuals dismissed as “already gone” and finding them still possessed of complex, vital inner lives; of witnessing her grandfather’s final years with Alzheimer’s and discovering her own heightened genetic risk of succumbing to the disease—Harper engages in an exploration of dementia that is unlike anything written before on the subject. A rich and startling work of nonfiction, On Vanishing reveals cognitive change as it truly is, an essential aspect of what it means to be mortal.
Download or read book Feet of Clay written by Joseph R. Trudel and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2008-05-28 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year is 2014. America is no longer the industrial or the military dynamo that it had previously been. Inside its own borders, minor disputes over national issues are accelerating beyond the comprehension and management of both the American public and among its political leaders. In the fog of distance, a phantom cargo ship drifts hauntingly alone on the Pacific Ocean. Its crew mysteriously murdered by someone... or something... thats too horrible to explain...too eerie to reveal its forbidden truth. Some six thousand miles away, covert activities and treasonous acts against the United States now send rippling consequences that will soon be felt throughout the entire world. America itself will not be left untouched, for it is this country that will now strain and struggle against itself as it attempts to elude the coming Armageddon that will inevitably test its willits spiritand even its founding principles, towards remaining the true leader of the free world. Yet, another era in history is quickly emerging. And with it a new nations leadership that truly believes that its time has come. Its iron-will belief system is so strong, that its success will ultimately come not from its own military might, but rather from an unraveling of the international stage towards a veiled co-existence. Against this background, a sinister plan for a nuclear holocaust has been conceived. Its chief architect is not a person of self-control, but rather a psychopathic madman intent on becoming the most powerful and feared individual of all time. His weapon of choice is neither guns nor direct threats, but rather the devils very own deception of coy innocence. Anarchy in America....Armageddons arrival.... Ascension of a Dark Horse nation the end of days....is about to begin.
Download or read book A Christmas Carol and Bob and Ted and Alice written by Ian Wood and published by Ian Wood. This book was released on 2023-10-31 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is not your great-grandfather's Christmas Carol! Ben is a successful casting director working out of San Francisco. He has access to a host of aspiring actresses who come to him looking to get into the movies, but just because he can find the right person for the right part doesn't mean he has a decent character. Ben's problem isn't his lack of financial charity, it's his lack of respect for any gender that's not him. On Christmas Eve, he's visited by his dead partner, who tells him he's doomed to a miserable after-party if he can't stop irresponsibly partying in this life. Can the ghosts of relationships past and the non-conforming and flamboyant ghosts of things to come wise Ben up to the wisdom of MeToo or will he end up condemned to a cold and lonely TooMe?
Download or read book THE NEW DAY written by J. Rowland Broughton and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is 1912 and Richard Harvey is the heir the Longhalls Estate; the youngest member of a family that has owned and farmed the Estate since it was granted to his ancestors by William the Conqueror. During a journey on horse-back through a severe Winter storm he becomes lost, and finally exhausted he staggers and collapses in the court yard of a small farm. He is found covered in snow and hauled into the farmhouse by Mary Ayres. So begins a courtship of the two young people, one that sees them married and settled in their large country house which they share with Richard's grandfather and a large staff of servants. The estate is run by Richard and Old Mr Harvey until the outbreak of the War with Germany in 1914. Being a country-man Richard has no desire to become an officer so he enlists as a Private soldier in the Lincolnshire Regiment along with a group of workers from the Longhalls Estate. After a brief period of training they a thrown into the fury of trench warfare where following the slaughter of all of their officers and NCO's the men look to Richard Harvey to see them through. This is the story of the quiet country gentleman who becomes a national hero, much to his own dismay for he would rather be at home with his wife and family rather than moving on to the next stage of a war that seems to have no ending. He is granted a Field Commission and is rapidly promoted and decorated much to his own regret. Strong in the traditions of his family he is given the Monarchs Special Commission and after being wounded in combat becomes equerry to the King. Richard Harvey survives the War only to die during the Flu epidemic of 1918 to be survived by his only son Richard Harvey survives the War only to die during the Flu epidemic of 1918 to be survived by his only son Henry. This is the first volume of a Harvey Family History the following Titles are in preparation:- Return to the Soil' Children of the Lonely Night' The Missing Years' Cutting the Ties'
Download or read book Ghost Ship written by Diane Carey and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2000-05-23 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An original novel based on the acclaimed Star Trek TV series! In 1995, a Russian aircraft carrier is destroyed by a mysterious creature that just as mysteriously disappears thereafter. Three hundred years later, Counsellor Deanna Troi awakens in her quarters from a nightmare in which she senses the voices of the crew of that Russian ship, whose life-essences were somehow absorbed by the creature that destroyed them. And the nightmare heralds a danger to the Enterprise itself, for if Picard can't discover a way to communicate with the creature, it could absorb his crew just as it did the Russians.
Download or read book Corrupt Savior written by Tara Leigh and published by Tara Leigh. This book was released on 2019-05-13 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The monarch of Manhattan has met his match, but will he lose his crown... This is enemies-to-lovers romance at its most ruthless. I am a corrupt king, ruling a sinful empire. I wasn’t born to the crown. Nevertheless, I wear it well. Aislinn Granville is the Crown Jewel of my empire—my queen. To my enemies, she’s my Achilles heel—a perfect pawn. Without her, I am a wounded warrior. A ruthless, relentless beast. There is nowhere she can be taken that I won’t find her. No adversary I won’t crush to get her back. Even if I have to burn this city to the ground.
Download or read book Masters and Masterpieces of Iranian Cinema written by Hamid Dabashi and published by Mage Publishers. This book was released on 2023-05-23 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An academically acclaimed and globally celebrated cultural critic, Hamid Dabashi is the Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He is the author of a number of highly acclaimed books and articles on Iran, Islam, comparative literature, world cinema, and the philosophy of art, among them Close Up: Iranian Cinema, Past, Present, Future; Dreams of a Nation: On Palestinian Cinema (editor), Iran: A People Interrupted, and Iran without Borders: Towards a Critique of the Postcolonial Nation. He lives with his family in New York City.
